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 Fitting.....................10
Since each sphere is richly populated by spirits fitting into that particular sphere, you are all constantly 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
of other directions, the plan is modified accordingly, fitting the circumstances exactly. All the alternatives are prepared 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in a deliberate overemphasis on the allowed trends fitting the sex in question. For centuries and centuries 62 MAN AND WOMAN
a slightly different angle, and this is only fitting for the last lecture of the season. Let 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
this lecture. These teachers used their own terminology, fitting their time, but the basic meaning remains the 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
mind and stop denying your feelings by agitatedly fitting the hurtful event into fixed images and theories 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
dynamics from what you used to do: artificially fitting feelings into a superstructure of explanations and reasoning 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
new forms, clad perhaps in a new terminology, fitting to the present society. There is a new 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
coinciding with pleasant and unpleasant. Finding the most fitting environment, parents, siblings, friends, contacts in later life 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
more on your body, to make it a fitting receptacle for truth, love, wisdom and service. At 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
 
 Fixated.....................4
words. As long as the personality is unconsciously fixated on early experience, the soul cannot truly grow 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
obvious that as long as a person is fixated on negative erotic or sexual pleasure, it is 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
fear-tension currents. To the degree that you are fixated on this either/or duality, you are in error 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
flowing, moving, ongoing process, you can never become fixated on finalities, which create error, confusion, duality. You 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
 
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and the faulty assimilation of experience. This negative fixation of the pleasure drive may take two extreme 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
your psyche become ready to truly reach out. Fixation implies lack of movement, and therefore lack of 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
movement of the life force could dissolve the fixation. Experience then could take place on the level 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
pain and fear. Then you can find the fixation directly and without detour. It is obvious that 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
you have reached advanced earthly age, dissolved your fixation, or faced your original childhood conditions, it is 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
every difficult situation in life represents a sexual fixation in the innermost psyche that you fear and 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
and where the pleasure/unpleasure dichotomy produces an unconscious fixation of the pleasure experience on a negative situation 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
come to believe them. It furthers a lower-self fixation to indulge in the negative pleasure of negative 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
 
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are very deeply rooted, your idiosyncrasies and your fixations, all this is not part of your body 18 FREE WILL
It is about self-responsibility, and about certain philosophic fixations we seem to have which include both a 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
entanglements among your guilt, repression, fear, early childhood fixations of the pleasure principle, its failure to develop 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
cannot truly grow and expand its experience. The fixations cannot be given up unless awareness enters into 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
is of utmost necessity to dissolve all these fixations and thus set the life force free. Frustration 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
in your life. When you fail to resolve fixations, you block the life force, and this blockage 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
 
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each individual being. In the same way, the fixed and yet eternally moving spiritual laws, which pertain 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
only ground I can stand on, my only fixed point; I do not know any other. Of 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
law? ANSWER: Not necessarily. We do not have fixed rules like that. There are cases when divorce 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
indicates greater or lesser development. There is no fixed rule on that. Each case is a separate 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the truth with absolute self-honesty. There are no fixed rules to determine whether actions are right or 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
current, you will not need to dream up fixed situations. You will not be rigid in your 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
the unknown makes humans distort true concepts into fixed opposites, thereby diminishing their truth. It was very 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
flexible; by its very nature it cannot be fixed. Nothing that is true can be rigid, static 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
that is true can be rigid, static, or fixed. It is always flexible. This very flexibility appears 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
as a threat to people. They want the fixed pseudo-safety of a stone wall on which they 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
the human soul. Humans think that what is fixed is safe, and what is flexible is unsafe 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
too, cling to the supposed safety of the fixed rule. You seem to feel as though you 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
the confusion about self-responsibility. When leaning on the fixed rule, you shift the responsibility to the rule 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
that there is no such thing as a fixed rule, you are frightened, because you have to 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
be a danger to you. The inflexible or fixed rule or law is for the child who 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
people need the strong authority who upholds the fixed rule because then they do not have to 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
greater insecurity than being egocentric. Egocentricity calls for fixed, prescribed behavior patterns and rules, however subtly and 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
you to let go of the super-structure of fixed rules, it is only because you cannot accept 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
Discover where and how you use preconceived and fixed rules to guide you, rather than your own 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
to have the courage not to conform to fixed rules, or not to rebel against what is 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
Or do they take on an awesome, strange, fixed, and therefore almost inhuman form in your emotional 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
still becomes inhuman from your exaggerated overglorification. Your fixed and static view, due to the fragmentation of 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
flexible and contradictory, for which there are no fixed rules, is something the child in you would 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
may seem much easier to cling to your fixed impressions, where each person fits into a niche 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
trouble spots mean that the pleasure drive was fixed in connection with negative, unpleasurable experience by guilt 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
self- centered, and therefore excluding. Emotions that remain fixed in the childish state are less sinful than 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
other relationships, particularly with your mate. The more fixed your emotions are, the more they indicate that 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
and resolved. Therefore, the time element cannot be fixed nor rules made that each period must take 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
The time element cannot be compared to the fixed time that a physical organism takes to grow 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
that phases of growth cannot be measured in fixed states as with the physical organism. Besides, as 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
in another, for it is actually not a fixed spot. In your illusory vision of time, space 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
is convinced that life itself is a certain fixed, unchangeable thing, life must turn out to be 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
that has its predetermined existence, whose conditions are fixed. Even objects are in flux, are condensed energy 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
feelings by agitatedly fitting the hurtful event into fixed images and theories. Let it be! Feel what 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
error of perceiving and experiencing life in a fixed way, as though what is now must always 174 SELF-ESTEEM
of consciousness. This state of consciousness is now fixed in the conviction that life and your personality 174 SELF-ESTEEM
remain that way. Your state of consciousness remains fixed in this dark imprisonment as long as you 174 SELF-ESTEEM
believe this is you; you are in a fixed state, you are a fixed unit, and any 174 SELF-ESTEEM
are in a fixed state, you are a fixed unit, and any change is impossible because you 174 SELF-ESTEEM
you -- intrinsically alien, and your real, final, fixed self is what you dislike. As long as 174 SELF-ESTEEM
be understood in its essence. No matter how fixed your life may appear, it is only one 174 SELF-ESTEEM
Underneath all these personality traits you believe are fixed, final things, the fluid life exists like a 174 SELF-ESTEEM
overcome anything when you believe you are a fixed, unchangeable blob. You know that according to your 174 SELF-ESTEEM
geared to believe that your life is a fixed mold you were put into and you must 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
you wish to make fluid what is now fixed. You may then uncover that non-fulfillment, with all 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
the best, most wise aspect of the self. Fixed outer values are never a reliable answer to 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
trapped in error and negativity is stagnant and fixed. The difficulty is making that fixedness fluid again 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
and consciousness is energy. Consciousness that solidifies into fixed substance must be made fluid again, must wake 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
wake up out of its own stagnation. Stagnant, fixed energy/consciousness needs its own loosening up. Fluid consciousness 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
Fluid consciousness and energy can affect the stagnant, fixed parts only with the greatest difficulty, because true 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
Free-flowing energy/consciousness is therefore always repulsed by the fixed state. This is what I meant by the 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
mode, substance, energy and consciousness trapped into a fixed nucleus will remain stationary. These words are not 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
consciousness and fluid energy did not prevail upon fixed consciousness and soul substance, it would remain fixed 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
fixed consciousness and soul substance, it would remain fixed forever and ever. The free-flowing consciousness/energy eventually prevails 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
is not so. Consciousness does not require a fixed form. Every particle of matter contains consciousness, but 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
if the human entity were put into a fixed outer form of life. It is generally overlooked 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
aliveness, of the unitive state. The vacuum is fixed; the spark of the all is constantly moving 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
at things. This is an essential task. Your fixed ideas prevent the spirit from moving your mind 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
now believe to be emotions are often merely fixed opinions. And where your feelings should unfold, you 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
have built in your mind with your tightly fixed conclusion to convince yourself and eliminate disturbing self-doubts 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
not be annihilated if you abandon your view fixed to the present interpretation. This fixed view is 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
your view fixed to the present interpretation. This fixed view is to a considerable extent responsible for 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
other words, psychological deviations are associated with a fixed, inflexible mind that must be dealt with in 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
easy path. But the difficulty is not a fixed reality, a given fact, an immutable condition. The 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
Life itself appears to you a static, objective fixed thing into which you are put. It seems 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
merely a subjective expression of yourself, not a fixed, objective, immovable reality. Once you learn to be 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
misconceptions and generalizations which form very limited and fixed closed systems. Conscious and/or unconscious identification which forms 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
rather than feeling a helpless object in a fixed world. Peace and knowledge of the rightness of 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
disconnected from you. Then the world seems a fixed place in which your personal experiences come to 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
before seemed to you absolutely and incontrovertibly a fixed outer event you were put into haphazardly, was 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
only one of many possibilities, rather than a fixed, exclusive reality applicable to all inner states. When 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
materialistic consciousness in which life appears a given fixed thing into which you are put, you will 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
reality for as long as your mind is fixed on them, just as this sphere seems the 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
the end creation, which appears to be a fixed thing. But when you become aware of your 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
of energy rigidifies and makes things and people fixed. The flow becomes invisible, as does the entity 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
contain in your nucleus, which is not a fixed perfectionism, but the ever moving, changing perfection of 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
will be good. Such an approach has no fixed opinion; it empties itself. That is one of 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
insecure, for you believe that security lies in fixed rules. Nothing could be further from the truth 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
old stable laws according to which what is fixed and unchangeable is secure. The laws that pertain 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
of life. I am not speaking here of fixed temperatures, for there is no norm applicable to 228 BALANCE
This is a mistake. So your mind becomes fixed and closed to the truth. When the contracting 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
pattern which affects others adversely. The misconception is fixed and frozen in the soul substance because it 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
feared to lose when you give up your fixed ideas. The new light nourishes and strengthens you 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
change over time. They will never deteriorate into fixed routines. The sexual encounter is a true fusion 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
over. For the soul is not static or fixed. It constantly moves and changes, forever producing new 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
be put into an entirely objective world, all fixed and ready-made. All conditions and natural laws seem 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
Everything and everyone changes, and there is no fixed guarantee that what is right today will be 254 SURRENDER
space. Just as there is really no objective, fixed time, so there is no objective, fixed space 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
objective, fixed time, so there is no objective, fixed space. Your real being can live, breathe and 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS

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